To Save or Not To Save
I posed the question in my Facebook group, Reduce Debt, Revive Dreams, of whether you should pay your debt off first or save money. Most of the people who responded were in favour of paying the debt off first. And that is a good strategy. After all, with debt you are paying interest, you are paying more money so paying the debt off faster makes sense. Right? Yes and no. Paying your debt off faster will save you money in interest payments. But what happens if you have an unexpected expense and don’t have funds available to pay for that expense? Whatever are you going to do? Delay paying for the expense until you save the money? Alternatively, put the expense on a credit card? Probably the latter, right? Now if you had savings, you would be able to take some of that money to pay for the unexpected expense. Then you would just have to work to replace the money taken from savings. In fact, Dave Ramsey advises you have a savings of $1,000.00 before taking dr...